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Cloud Pak for Data Platform

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Cloud Pak Configuration as Code

We have 3 Installations of Cloud Pak for Data (Stages - PROD, QA, BUILD) and would need the ability to configure the hole instance in a git repository. To Configure Cloud Pak for Data "ArgoCD" like as code in yaml form. Why do we need this: It is ...
17 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Online backup and restore to a different cluster using OADP and ODF

A full volume backup (not just snapshots) using OADP and ODF is only possible using an offline backup. The current offline backup solution results in several hours of downtime for our watsonx cluster. As platform usage continues to grow, this down...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

CP4D and its various components are requesting too many resources

This is a behaviour we have seen at various customers where CP4D is requesting very high amount of cpu and memory and the real usage is very low. At this precise customer, they have an OpenShift cluster of 120 cpu for a staging environment. The re...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Folder-Level Access Control in CP4D Volumes

Currently, in IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D), access control for data stored in persistent volumes (PVs/PVCs) can only be managed at the volume level. This means that any user with access to the volume can view and modify all folders and files with...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Authentication API support for additional content types

The CP4D authentication API only accepts the content type application\json Customers identity provider can only send the request with application/x-www-form-urlencoded
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Planned for future release

Pod Documentation

We would need a Page in the documentation where all pods are described and its usage based on software usage. The last year we often strugeled to know which pod to restart as a first measure to solve bugs. Most times we opened a ticket and afterwa...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Service permissions

In the past we had different User Groups using a tool. for Example one group was using datastage and another one the knowledge catalog. It was easy to say if someone is allowed to use a toolstack, because you just need to give them a permission. E...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Support NetApp SnapMirror technology for low-RPO Backup/Restore Capability

Support the use of NetApp (trident) SnapMirror technology (via Astra Control Center and/or Trident Protect) to provide a low-RPO solution for backup and recovery of CP4D in an alternate failover location.
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Backup and restore IBM Cloud Pak with Kasten

Hello, We are using Kasten (VEEAM) to backup and restore all of our apps on Openshift and we would like to use it also for IBM Cloud Pak (for data, for automation, for integration, ...). Regards.
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

When restoring a Cloud Pak for Data online backup to the same cluster with IBM Storage Fusion, need to eliminate the requirement to manually delete the CP4D instance projects before the restore is con

This idea would be beneficial for CP4D customers who do not have a DR cluster environment and need to conduct backup/restore testing within the same cluster. CLients are risk averse to deleting the namespaces of their instances where the restore i...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release